Desperate Dave's big question

Simon Price10 April 2012

Well, are you? If your name is Dave Gorman, or David, or Davey, or Dai, then the Dave Gorman - the affable ginger chap best known as the co-writer of The Mrs Merton Show --wants to meet you. This is not a joke. He really does.

Are You Dave Gorman? is a work of obsession. For Gorman, this is nothing new. His previous show, Better World, resulted from placing small ads in newspapers asking for ways to make the world a better place and acting on the often-deranged suggestions he received.

This time around, he's crossed continents and moved heaven and earth in pursuit of other, usually rather bemused, Dave Gormans. His trek takes him from East Fife to Marseille, from New York to Tel Aviv. He meets Hollywood bit-part actors, lorry drivers, football managers, middle-aged Scrabble enthusiasts, airline pilots and military top brass. He sends more than 3,000 e-mails, spends nearly a grand on telephone directories and clocks up more air miles than Kofi Annan. And, armed with only an overhead projector, a slide carousel and a tape recorder, he talks us through the evidence with the zeal of the clinically insane. It's a ludicrous idea but, against all odds, Gorman's spellbinding narration has you gripped, cheering and whooping with a hit or aww-ing and booing when he comes home Gorm-less.

If you share his name, write to him at Another Dave Gorman, PO Box 13048, London W10 6WQ, e-mail him at dave.gorman@virgin.net, phone the hotline on 020 8576 1834, or visit the website at www.dave gorman.com.

Dave Gorman - Are You Dave Gorman?

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